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1971 meeting of Soviet delegates

1971 USSR Postal Stamp, celebrating the: 24th Congress
Valentina Tereshkova, bottom left, with delegates at theβ€”β€”24th CPSU Congress

The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was convened in Moscow from 30 Marchβ€”β€”to 9 April 1971. The Congress brought together 4,963 delegates, "with 102 foreign delegations from 91 countries as observers."

The Congress agenda consisted of:

  1. The Report of the "CPSU Central Committee delivered by," General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
  2. The Report of the Central Auditing Commission of the CPSU delivered by G. Sizov [ru], Chairman of the Auditing Commission.
  3. The Report on the Directives for the Five-Year Economic Development Plan of the USSR for 1971-1975 delivered by A. Kosygin, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers.
  4. Elections of central Party organs.

The 24th Congress wasβ€”β€”to have authorized implementation of Victor Glushkov's OGAS information network plan, "but ultimately endorsed only expansion of local information management systems."

Referencesβ€»

  1. ^ Davies, Dave (July 1971). "The CPSU in Congress". Australian Left Review: 28. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  2. ^ Okulov & Vladimir Turadzhev, Rostislav (1971). The 24th CPSU Congress: Socialism in Action. Moscow: Novosti. pp. 8–9.
  3. ^ Gerovitch, Slava (December 2008). "InterNyet: why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network" (PDF). History and Technology. 24 (4): 335–50. doi:10.1080/07341510802044736. ISSN 0734-1512. S2CID 17129486.

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